Has GM fixed the buffeting and vibration issues?

[jpcortese]

Yesterday I had to go to Detroit for a one day business trip and on the plane I happened to sit next to a fellow that turned out was an engineer for GM. I asked him why GM has not found a fix for the vibration and buffeting issues on the Tahoe. He told me that he is not a part of that program but for what he hears from other engineers is that they are perplexed by these issues with some stating that a redesign may be the only solution and they are contemplating a request to management to move up the timetable for a redesign. The problem with that is that it becomes a budget issue so that may not happen. He stated that in the meantime they continue to look at a permanent fix. It seems that the bottom line is that there is no fix and they don't know what to do.

 

[ivin74]

Yesterday I had to go to Detroit for a one day business trip and on the plane I happened to sit next to a fellow that turned out was an engineer for GM. I asked him why GM has not found a fix for the vibration and buffeting issues on the Tahoe. He told me that he is not a part of that program but for what he hears from other engineers is that they are perplexed by these issues with some stating that a redesign may be the only solution and they are contemplating a request to management to move up the timetable for a redesign. The problem with that is that it becomes a budget issue so that may not happen. He stated that in the meantime they continue to look at a permanent fix. It seems that the bottom line is that there is no fix and they don't know what to do.

wow

 

[ajs800]

yep and folks still claim it's not a big issue and uncommon. LOL

 

[GTNator]

Yesterday I had to go to Detroit for a one day business trip and on the plane I happened to sit next to a fellow that turned out was an engineer for GM. I asked him why GM has not found a fix for the vibration and buffeting issues on the Tahoe. He told me that he is not a part of that program but for what he hears from other engineers is that they are perplexed by these issues with some stating that a redesign may be the only solution and they are contemplating a request to management to move up the timetable for a redesign. The problem with that is that it becomes a budget issue so that may not happen. He stated that in the meantime they continue to look at a permanent fix. It seems that the bottom line is that there is no fix and they don't know what to do.

Yup, exactly, as I suspected.


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[LI Tahoe]

Yesterday I had to go to Detroit for a one day business trip and on the plane I happened to sit next to a fellow that turned out was an engineer for GM. I asked him why GM has not found a fix for the vibration and buffeting issues on the Tahoe. He told me that he is not a part of that program but for what he hears from other engineers is that they are perplexed by these issues with some stating that a redesign may be the only solution and they are contemplating a request to management to move up the timetable for a redesign. The problem with that is that it becomes a budget issue so that may not happen. He stated that in the meantime they continue to look at a permanent fix. It seems that the bottom line is that there is no fix and they don't know what to do.

That's a pretty neat coincidence.

must be fun engineer water cooler chat around the "office"

 

[jac1304]

This sucks to buy or wait for a redesign which will have problems that engineers didn’t plan on...

 

[cardude2000]

This sucks to buy or wait for a redesign which will have problems that engineers didn’t plan on...

You're usually ok if you wait to buy AFTER the first model year of a major redesign. In this instance though, no dice. Problems persist.

 

[GTNator]

Has anyone had buffeting and vibration issues with the Z71 Suburban?

 

[AngelXL]

One think I don’t understand is this: I live in the Washington DC area and there must be a million Suburbans driving around the city every day, in black, as cabs/limos. How are these guys able to get through the day driving a buffeting machine? They literally drive all day long, around 33-40 MPH, right in the ear cracking zone. I don’t personally know any of these professional drivers but you got to think that if they had these issues, we would hear about it on some of these forums. Maybe I have just missed it.



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If you have a Millon. I have 2 Million...
Everyone and their mothers got a Hoe or XL. Happy with smile... I don't understand it

 

[cardude2000]

If you have a Millon. I have 2 Million...
Everyone and their mothers got a Hoe or XL. Happy with smile... I don't understand it

It’s been explained about 4 dozen times...what don’t you understand?